WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Okay, those titles I made is an Art Deco font, which is Avenir, 00:00:07.001 --> 00:00:09.000 and that's digital. 00:00:09.001 --> 00:00:15.000 But I figured that that pulled into definitely a great Gatsby kind of look. 00:00:15.001 --> 00:00:18.001 It also ruined the compression, so that's why it stutters. 00:00:26.001 --> 00:00:30.000 So the left and right panes are one video. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.001 The central pane is another video, and then there's an overlay over all three 00:00:36.001 --> 00:00:39.000 that's transformed one individual. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.001 The lightning strikes in the middle are actually timed to the 00:00:44.001 --> 00:00:47.001 flourishes on the violin. 00:00:47.001 --> 00:00:52.000 And that's God's wrath in one of the previous animation 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.000 videos after they eat the apple. 00:00:56.001 --> 00:01:01.001 With the knife, the left are, that's from 00:01:01.001 --> 00:01:03.001 another, that's a standalone video. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:06.001 There's so much going on in a lot of these. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.000 So that's four layers right there. 00:01:13.001 --> 00:01:19.001 Okay, so there we're getting to Coco, which Coco's animation was, look at 00:01:19.001 --> 00:01:21.000 that tiger, that tiger's awesome. 00:01:22.001 --> 00:01:28.001 The animation for that is really intense, and there's a lot of looping going on. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.000 And it was hard to not use him standalone looking. 00:01:34.001 --> 00:01:39.001 The waving lines in the middle are one layer, circles are another. 00:01:40.001 --> 00:01:45.001 That's cut in half to the left and right of a spinning glass. 00:01:46.001 --> 00:01:49.000 It's on the table with a lazy Susan. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.000 Spinning a lazy Susan, it's shining a hot light. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.001 That's from the Greta Garbo movie in which she played a prostitute. 00:02:03.001 --> 00:02:09.001 And he has quite a razor-glossing that 00:02:09.001 --> 00:02:11.000 really amazing. 00:02:11.001 --> 00:02:17.001 What I would say about that, that's a tracking shot in a car. 00:02:18.001 --> 00:02:20.000 And here's Greta. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.001 Okay, now this is her acting star bit. 00:02:24.001 --> 00:02:27.001 The scene in which she's in right now is un-starred. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:29.001 He has no food. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.000 And since he asked the boss when she's secretary if he would give her some food, 00:02:34.001 --> 00:02:36.001 and he said, well, no, but I'll pay for sex. 00:02:37.001 --> 00:02:39.001 And that's what the movie ends up being. 00:02:40.001 --> 00:02:46.001 But that kind of acting right there, and that really melodramatic, 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:53.001 hot and belit kind of book was the hallmark of that 00:02:53.001 --> 00:02:56.000 kind of time. 00:02:56.001 --> 00:02:58.001 So this is four other layers coming in. 00:02:59.001 --> 00:03:01.000 These were all transformed in. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.000 There's no plug-ins or anything like that. 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.000 That's all natural footage. 00:03:06.001 --> 00:03:09.001 And one of the... 00:03:09.001 --> 00:03:11.001 Yeah, I don't even know how to talk through all that stuff. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:16.000 But blowing that stuff up and layering, it also solved the fidelity problem that 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.000 I had in which all these videos are actually very small. 00:03:19.001 --> 00:03:25.001 And so by blowing them up to 1080 video in order to edit it, you get all this 00:03:25.001 --> 00:03:28.000 pixelization and also the compression artifacts. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.001 And by layering it, your artifacts are transforming the artifacts 00:03:35.001 --> 00:03:38.000 underneath, and so they end up canceling each other out. 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.000 So it's kind of a fidelity trick that I learned from doing a lot of glitch. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.000 Danse Macabre is... 00:03:46.001 --> 00:03:50.000 I ran that through some noise filtering in order to... 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.001 That's two different parts to get this down to a three-minute video. 00:03:53.001 --> 00:03:58.000 So I chopped that up and ran a noise filter over it because there were some pops. 00:03:59.001 --> 00:04:03.001 But I really liked the movement of it, and I also liked the flourishing going up 00:04:03.001 --> 00:04:06.001 and down, the stair-stepping of the violin. 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.000 And that worked really well with some of the visuals that I had. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.001 And so I started out with the visuals before I picked the music. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.000 I got halfway through the visuals, and then I went back in and I found Danse 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.000 Macabre, and it sounded really goth and 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.000 metal, and I said, yeah, that's what I want. 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:32.000 And I chopped it up and cleaned it up, and then I finished the 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.000 rest of the visuals in order to sync up with the music a little more. 00:04:36.001 --> 00:04:39.001 And then I stopped working because I got obsessed with it. 00:04:39.001 --> 00:04:42.000 I said, you know what? I need to just keep this fun. 00:04:42.001 --> 00:04:47.001 And so I stopped and then tried to focus on getting you guys 00:04:47.001 --> 00:04:49.000 the metadata you needed for the 00:04:52.001 --> 00:04:55.000 description and all that and make sure that it fit in. 00:04:55.001 --> 00:04:59.000 And then put it up, and then I realized that it was 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.000 stuttering and I wanted to re-export it. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.000 Anytime you do video work, you're never done. 00:05:04.001 --> 00:05:07.001 So I just had to say, I'm stopping, I'm done. 00:05:08.001 --> 00:05:10.000 Congratulations, Joshua. It's just fabulous. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.000 And when you want to play it, I would recommend that you go and download the 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:18.000 video and then play it off your computer because it doesn't play all that well 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 from streaming from the servers, at least for us in Canada. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:28.001 And we looked into the music, and we're trying to make sure that it was out of 00:05:28.001 --> 00:05:31.001 print, and so it could be library public domain. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:37.001 And it turns out it's a 1925 production, and it's a very famous production, 00:05:37.001 --> 00:05:39.001 because it was the first electrical recording. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.001 Before that, 78s were done by just bellowing into a horn. 00:05:45.001 --> 00:05:46.000 But this is an electrical. 00:05:46.001 --> 00:05:50.001 They actually had a tube, one tube, that helped make it. 00:05:50.001 --> 00:05:57.001 But the one that's in print is actually the 1936 edition of it. 00:05:57.001 --> 00:06:00.001 So the 1925 is out of print, not on Spotify. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:05.001 And so anyway, it was completely fun to go and chase that down. 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:12.001 Joshua, this is Wendy, and I've been publicizing your winning film, but we've 00:06:12.001 --> 00:06:14.001 been just calling it by Lucid Beaming. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.001 Can we use your full name? 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:18.000 And what is your full name? 00:06:18.001 --> 00:06:20.000 My name is Joshua Curry. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:27.001 I have a long history as a photographer and a documentary artist. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.000 I use a lot of fine art techniques and making documentary work. 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.001 But Lucid Beaming is the name that I use for all series of tech art 00:06:35.001 --> 00:06:37.000 that I started five years ago. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.001 And I do a lot of interactive work, installations, projection. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:51.000 Basically, I live in San Jose, and so I live around a dying industry, which 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.001 is the old hardware industry, the old transistor and IC. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.000 They used to make hardware down here, and they don't. 00:06:57.001 --> 00:06:59.000 So there's all this surplus equipment around. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.000 And so I buy this equipment and I make art out of it. 00:07:03.001 --> 00:07:08.000 But I use the name Lucid Beaming because I had a whole established career 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.000 doing other kinds of work. 00:07:10.001 --> 00:07:17.000 And that's part of being a modern 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:24.000 artist is having an avatar identity and using the internet. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.000 I mean, that's where we've ended up. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.001 I mean, you know, a lot of times we're not even known by our names. 00:07:30.001 --> 00:07:34.001 We're just by our phone numbers or associated ID numbers or something like that. 00:07:34.001 --> 00:07:39.000 And so I think we're getting into interesting territory of what even is identity. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.001 But anyway, yeah, my name is Joshua. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.001 And why did you call it dance to Allianz? 00:07:45.001 --> 00:07:46.000 What's that? 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:47.001 The title? 00:07:47.001 --> 00:07:48.001 Can you explain the title? 00:07:49.001 --> 00:07:51.000 So I was going to do so. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.001 First of all, it came from Dance Macabre, which is the title of the music. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.000 And I didn't want to just use that title. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:05.001 I wanted to use a play on words that would be something that would 00:08:05.001 --> 00:08:07.001 pull in the tech. 00:08:07.001 --> 00:08:11.001 And I actually have some French cousins who live in Montpellier. 00:08:12.001 --> 00:08:14.000 Sorry for butching that. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:19.000 But they speak French to me when I see them. 00:08:19.001 --> 00:08:24.000 And I thought it was a great chance to make something. 00:08:24.001 --> 00:08:27.000 So the only thing that they know about me is that I make this art. 00:08:27.001 --> 00:08:32.001 And so for to say Un film de Lucid Beaming was really exciting for me. 00:08:34.001 --> 00:08:37.001 Anyway, Dance de Allianz. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.001 First of all, I thought it looked like aliens. 00:08:39.001 --> 00:08:43.000 And then I started doing some research and I realized, no, it's insane. 00:08:43.001 --> 00:08:45.001 And it's a very it's a technical word for insane. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.001 They use it for like insane asylum and House of the Insane and things like that. 00:08:50.001 --> 00:08:54.001 And it totally fits the kind of art I do anyway. 00:08:55.001 --> 00:09:02.001 I do a lot of industrial music and things like that. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:09.001 And so my natural cultural output deals with a lot of insane 00:09:09.001 --> 00:09:12.001 ideas and aesthetics. 00:09:13.001 --> 00:09:15.001 How long did that take you? 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.001 The dance of the aliens and dance of the insane. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.001 The double meaning is great. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.001 How long did it take you to do the whole thing? 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Five days. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:34.001 And a lot of that was rendering and importing and cleanup. 00:09:34.001 --> 00:09:39.000 And so that's that's one of the things about a lot of my processes. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.001 There's a lot of pre production to even get all the 00:09:42.001 --> 00:09:44.000 files set up so that I have a palette. 00:09:45.001 --> 00:09:48.000 And in this case, it took five days. 00:09:49.001 --> 00:09:51.001 While I'm working on a bunch of other stuff. 00:09:52.001 --> 00:09:54.000 Hats off to you. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.000 And thank you very much for a magnificent contribution. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.000 And the other contributions were also just fabulous. 00:10:02.001 --> 00:10:08.001 It was really a celebration that of outpouring of serious amounts of work 00:10:08.001 --> 00:10:10.000 and creativity went into these. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.001 Thank you very much.